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Biotech / Medical : Biotech Valuation -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sam Citron who wrote (7499)	12/13/2002 6:01:45 PM
From: Biomaven	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 52153

It sounds like beta to me. Nope - close but not the same. Beta is the linear regression coefficient between a stock and the market. If you had a stock that was very volatile but moved inversely with the market it would have a high (positive) variance but a negative beta. If it had no correlation with the market at all, it would have a zero beta but could still have a high variance. A high beta stock will always have a high variance, but the converse is not true. Peter